MA615 Final Project

12/16/2019

Overview

Airbnb, which started its service in 2008, was an unconventional accommodation rental service that focused on allowing travelers to live like locals with the concept of renting my home or my room.

As one of the travel buffs who love to travel, I use Airbnb a lot even more than Hotel services these days. And, I love that I can experience the traveling area as a resident, not as a tourist, through the Airbnb platform.

Throughout the project, I look for investigating and proving a few research questions, such as “how are the airbnb listings in Boston area diffrent from the Airbnb listings in other regions.”

The data I use for the project is collected from the site ‘Inside Airbnb’ http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html, which provides more detailed Airbnb data than most of the other opensource Airbnb data websites does, such as Kaggle and Tomslee.
For this project, I compare Airbnb listings in Boston with Airbnb listings in three different regions: New York city, Los Angeles and Hawaii.

Exploratory Data Analysis

Figure 1.1 (Boston)

Figure 1.2 (NYC)

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Figure 1.3 (LA)

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Figure 1.4 (Hawaii)

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Figure 1.5 (combined)

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Figure 2.1 (Boston)

Figure 2.2 (New York city)

Figure 2.3 (Los Angeles)

Figure 2.4 (Hawaii)

Figure 2.5 (combined)

## Figure 2.5 (combined)

-For all of the cities, the price with the most number of reviews is approximately $exp(5)=148.4132$.

-Therefore, the most popular Airbnb listings are roughly around $148.41 per day in all four cities.

Most crowded neighborhoods with Airbnb Listings

Check which neighborhood has the most number of Airbnb listings is Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Hawaii.
Create tables and plots to better check the data.

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Boston)

Neighborhood	Count
Dorchester	371
Downtown	318
Jamaica Plain	259
South End	270

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Hawaii)

Neighborhood	Count
Kihei-Makena	3768
Lahaina	3394
North Kona	2241
Primary Urban Center	4677

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (New York)

Neighborhood	Count
Bedford-Stuyvesant	3974
Bushwick	2504
Harlem	2746
Hell’s Kitchen	2052
Williamsburg	3936

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Los Angeles)

Neighborhood	Count
Downtown	1486
Hollywood	2086
Long Beach	1773
Santa Monica	1254
Venice	2108

Figure 3

Number of Airbnb listings (BOS, NYC, LA, HAWA)

Figure 3

Number of Airbnb listings (BOS, NYC, LA, HAWA)

From the plots, I can see how the Airbnb listings are distriubted over the neighbourhoods in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Hawaii.
For Boston, the most of the airbnb listings are crowded in Dorchester, Downtown and South End. Also, Primary Urban Center in Hawaii has the most number of Airbnb listings.

Overview

Exploratory Data Analysis

Figure 1.1 (Boston)

Figure 1.2 (NYC)

Figure 1.3 (LA)

Figure 1.4 (Hawaii)

Figure 1.5 (combined)

Figure 2.1 (Boston)

Figure 2.2 (New York city)

Figure 2.3 (Los Angeles)

Figure 2.4 (Hawaii)

Figure 2.5 (combined)

Most crowded neighborhoods with Airbnb Listings

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Boston)

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Hawaii)

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (New York)

Neighborhoods with the most number of Airbnb listings (Los Angeles)

Figure 3

Number of Airbnb listings (BOS, NYC, LA, HAWA)

Figure 3

Number of Airbnb listings (BOS, NYC, LA, HAWA)

Figure 4

Number of Airbnb reviews over the neighborhoods

Figure 4

Number of Airbnb reviews over the neighborhoods

Text Analysis

Figure 5.1 Wordcloud

the overall Airbnb reviews in Boston

Figure 5.2 Wordcloud

the overall Airbnb reviews in New York City

Figure 5.3 Wordcloud

the overall Airbnb reviews in Los Angeles

Figure 5.4 Wordcloud

the overall Airbnb reviews in Hawaii

Mapping

Mapping with shiny